(Airdate: November 18, 2024) This week on Attention Please! Charlie Bermant sat down with local mountain dulcimer musician Robert Force and discussed his new books American Minstrel: Prelude and American Minstrel Aria, which are described like this: “a wonderful, authentic, on-the-dirt-travels of a poet’s search for the meaning of life in the eccentric guise of a mountain dulcimer revolutionary who came of age in the tumultuous American 1960s.” They discuss the book and Robert plays dulcimer.
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(Airdate: November 15, 2024) This week on County Connections, JIm Burke and co-host Kate Dean interview the District 1 County Commissioner-Elect Heather Dudley-Nolette.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark heard from Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro about three ‘C’s: the CARES Program, Capital Projects, and Community Services.
(Airdate: November 14, 2024) A Tribute to a Lost Friend – Wishing I had said just the right thing.
(Airdate: November 13, 2024) Please join us at Nature Now as we explore new perspectives on the critical topic of climate change! Host Debaran Kelso speaks with celebrated author David Lipsky on the subject of his latest book The Parrot and the Igloo – Climate and the Science of Denial.
Our friends from the Coastal and Ocean Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport Museum were back in town to visit our shipwrights and the fishing fleet, now back in our boatyard for maintenance and repairs. We’ll visit Blaise Holly and his shop at Haven Boatworks, Ozzie Anderson, Captain and owner of fishing tenders Sunnyvale, McClure Bay, and fv Pegasus. Then over to Shipwrights Co-op owner Brad Seamans, who’s lead project director for the hauled-out halibut schooners Vansee (1913), Seymore (1914), and Grant (1926) of the historic working longliner fleet.
